1st Edition
Dollars and Borders U.S. Governemnt Attempts to Restrict Capital Flows, 1960-1980
By Pierre R. Crosson
Copyright 1987
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1987, Dollars and Borders explores the United States’ government’s relation to transnational capital. James P. Hawley traces the attempts of four presidents (John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter) in the 1960s and 1970s to restrict international movements of U.S. capital and analyses the political and economic issues confronted by the... Read more
Preface; 1. The Erosion of U.S. Hegemony 2. The 1962 Revenue Act 3. The Interest Equalization Tax, 1963-1971 4. The Voluntary Capital Control Programs, 1965-1967 5. The Mandatory Capital Control Program, 1968-1971 6. The Contradictory Consequences of the Capital Controls 7. U.S. Attempts to Regulate the Eurocurrency Market, 1979-1980 8. State Policy Formation and Business Interests; Notes; Index
Biography
James P. Hawley
